Re: Packaging ardour 4.0

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Hi Adrian

On 2015-04-19 14:13:02, Adrian Knoth wrote:
 Just wanted to let you know that I'm mostly done with packaging
 ardour4.0 (released yesterday).
 
 I'm currently building in pbuilder and will report back later.
 
 Note that the package is still called ardour3 with a version set to
 4.0~dfsg-1.
 
 Alternatively, we drop/rename ardour to ardour2 and leave the name
 ardour to the newest major release.
 
 Last not least, we should probably cut down on the number of ardour
 versions in Debian. Nobody supports a2 anymore, same for a3. It's a
 rolling release, and only the newest version makes sense.
 
 Upstream is only rolling forward, never backporting. That said:
 
* make ardour(4) the only version in Debian
 
 What I'm saying here is that we're going to release jessie with a
 version of ardour nobody cares about anymore. And I'm fine with that. We
 can continue providing FTBFS fixes in case they arise, but I'm not going
 to look at any bugreports against a3 containing runtime segfaults or the
 like, because they're probably already fixed in a4.
 
 Ardour seems exactly the kind of software where the classic
 distribution model falls apart, similar to Firefox or Chrome. All we do
 is play catching up with upstream.
 
 So here's the suggestion. Instead of
 
ardour  - a2
ardour3 - a3
ardour4 - a4
 
 I propose
 
ardour  - a4
ardour3 - a3 (legacy tree for jessie)
drop ardour3 after jessie+1 (what's the new codename? ;) )

Is there a reason to keep old ardour versions around?

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher


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Re: Packaging ardour 4.0

[Adrian Knoth]

On 04/19/15 14:43, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:

 Hi Adrian

Hi!

 I propose

ardour  - a4
ardour3 - a3 (legacy tree for jessie)
drop ardour3 after jessie+1 (what's the new codename? ;) )
 
 Is there a reason to keep old ardour versions around?

I've asked upstream about this. A4 can open A3 and A2 sessions, so we're
good to drop at least A2.

We initially started with a separate ardour3 package when a3 was still
in its early stages, so this is how we ended up with two different
packages.

Upstream later changed its development model to continuous releases
(instead of a dedicated development branch - same as the Linux kernel
when they gave up on unstable branches).

With A4 being backwards compatible, I'm even more in favour of re-using
the ardour package name for the purpose of a4.


Cheers

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